Compared to autonomous ground vehicles, UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) have significant mobility advantages and the potential to operate in otherwise unreachable locations. Micro UAVs still suffer from one major drawback: they do not have the necessary payload capabilities to support high performance arms. This paper, however, investigates the key challenges in controlling a mobile manipulatin...

This paper describes the development of a simulator for multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) utilizing the commercially available simulator XPlane and Matlab. Coordinated control of unmanned systems is currently being researched for a wide range of applications, including search and rescue, convoy protection, and building clearing to name a few. Although coordination and control of Unmanned...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are used for many missions, including weather reconnaissance, search and rescue assisting operations over seas and mountains, aerial photographing and mapping, fire detection, and traffic control. Autonomous operation of UAVs requires the development of control systems that can work without human support for long time periods. The path planners, which generate co...

A new design for an immersive ground control station is presented that allows operators to monitor and control one or more semi-autonomous unmanned remote vehicles. This new ground station utilizes a virtual reality based visualization of the operational space and the graphical representation of multiple information streams to create a comprehensive immersive environment designed to significant...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) typically fly blind with operators in distant locations. Most UAVs are too small to carry a traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) payload or transponder. Collision avoidance is currently done by flight planning, use of ground or air based human observers and segregated air spaces. US lawmakers propose commercial unmanned aerial systems access to national airs...

This paper presents a distributed application namedAERIAL which allows coordination and control of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) engaged in temporally constrained missions. This application combines multiagent paradigm and trajectory planning techniques and relies on a coordination model taking both deliberation and planning durations into account.

The technological process of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) application in the system of precise farming includes sequential interrelated operations: monitoring and sounding of crops (using light UAVs equipped with multispectral cameras), obtaining, processing and transmitting information for crop management, differentiated application of pesticides and fertilizers according to a specified trea...

In the last two decades, significant improvements in materials, computing power of microcontrollers, miniaturization of sensors, versatility of communication, and high-density energy storage have revolutionized the design and capabilities of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). These multiple fundamental advances have broadened the range of missions involving a single UAV, and have truly enabled th...

Souza, Bruno José Olivieri; Endler, Markus. An Approach for Movement Coordination of Swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Mobile Networks. Rio de Janeiro, 2015. 67p. Dissertação de Mestrado – Departamento de Informática, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. This work presents an approach to coordinate swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) based on Internet communication pr...